FLOODS AT MOTEUKA.
TOBACCO AREA INUNDATED.
SOME HOUSES VACATED
(Per Press Association). NELSON, This Day. The whole area round Motueka and an area at Riwaka are flooded after heavy and continuous rain. Some of the tobacco crops are under water. The Riwaka River has apparently reached its maximum height, but the Motueka River is still rising. At Motueka the tobacco crops suffered to some extent, and in one or two cases the hops are down.
The whole of AVhakarewa is flooded and several residents have had to leave their houses.
A number of girls who were working in a peach orchard on Foster’s Island were rescued this morning, being brought out on drays.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 116, 26 February 1937, Page 6
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